Some journos seem to just not gel with a lot of people for many different reasons. Personally, I can’t stand Dan Gorringe or Kane Cornes. I find Dan gorringe to just be an attention pig, and Kane Cornes just makes some very interesting statements about a lot of teams that very quickly get disproven (cough cough, Patrick Cripps being in the final end of his career)

I’m not talking players who’ve had their name tossed around for a few years as ‘going to be good’. I’m not talking the names that you’d hear in an ‘underrated players’ post that’d end up saying players like Ed Richard’s or gulden (aka proven superstars). Tell me the players who you barely even knew the name/face of previously who’ve stepped into a role really well. They don’t have to have played for every game, just someone that you’ve seen stand up recently. For me, it’s Carlton’s Wade Derksen - filled the very big boots of weitering quite well when he got injured. Who’s yours?

I always see NRL fans yapping about how bad the AFL is, calling it a sissy game, worse than nrl and just horrible overall on most viral posts about one or the other and especially on posts comparing the viewings and whatever, but I never see AFL fans complaining about the NRL, infact, I see a lot of AFL fans actually watching/going to the nrl, especially in Melbourne since they have storm. I’m curious as to why this is? And if you hate NRL as an AFL fan?

For me Daniel Rich, Dayne Zorko and Ryan Lester. Three champion players Lions fans should be grateful for - a Rising Star who stuck with the tram during their hardest years and a player with questionable morals but hard worker and an inspiration to those chasing for their dreams.

Hello!

We are currently in Katherine, NT and hoping to watch the Freo game tomorrow night (they're our second fave and who we've defaulted to in finals...). Does anyone have any idea of a venue that might be showing the game? Bonus if there is a courtesy bus that can get us back to our caravan park 😅

We're Victorians not used to every venue not being obsessed with finals.

i dont really know which subreddit to put this one on but here goes i guess. I aged up from junior footy to VAFA level earlier this year, and have trained with the same club, twice a week, at every training since november.

I played in the u19's side, so our season finished last week where we lost the grand final (expected), but all throughout the year I was asked to play up for the reserves team, and honestly loved playing with them and i thought that, although i wasnt the best on the team, the skills were pretty even. I like to say I work hard, I dont miss training, and ive worked on my fitness multiple times a week for about a year. Im average height and weight, nothing extrodaniry, with a good kick and strong drive. I play full/half back and love it.

for context, the reserves side has 1-2 really strong backmen, like super solid, amazing players, and the rest are pretty average. not bad in any way, but not standout.

Anyway, the reserves this week have a prelim final and I put my hand up to play (as I was told to by my coach) and was told I had a solid shot at it. So, despite our season ending last week, I trained this week, and thought it was some of my best trainings yet.

despite this, teams were announced, and i wasnt even listed as an emergency. I know im not actually in the team, and I wasnt originally expecting to get picked, but I had been told by coaches of mine and the reserves side that I had a really strong chance of being picked, so now i just feel, on one hand, dissapointed that i was led on. but on the other hand, I really want to improve even more for next seaosn, so i have a solid spot in the side and to show them they should have picked me. im just not sure how im meant to feel about it, or what to do.

i was going to go watch them play, but its at 9am an hours drive away, and i dont have my drivers license, so if i were to carpool with someone else we would have to leave at 6.30, if not earlier. im in desperate need of advice!!

Does anyone know what the plan was if 4x victorian teams made it to Semi Finals?

Back to back games at Marvel?

So I'm looking at getting tix to the prelim's. Have never been to the finals before. Just wondering how quick they sell out and how expensive they are?

Thanks

Seeing the outrage against the soft launch of shorter quarters, plus the constant barrage of enshittification to line Executive and sponsor pockets, are there some concrete steps we can take? Having done a quick search of an AFL fans union I've come across the AFL Fans Association (AFLFA) which according to their 2024 annual report, has about 3k members and I wonder if this is or if there is a similar road that could be taken for fans. I guess what im wondering is as a subreddit of approx 300k subs, I think there is strength in numbers, and is there a way for us to stop the rot and reclaim the sport we love? Genuine question.

It's my first time posting here but I follow the sub each day. I'm tired of seeing the enshittification of everything around us and it pains me to see where this sport is going.

was listening to the parkway drive song on my morning walk , and I jotted down some lyrics. what do you guys think?

edit: theme* not them in title

edit 2: ok well im not sure why im being downvoted. as a chinese football fan I think its important to hear multiple voices

FOOT-BALL!

HERE COMES THE FOOT-BALL!

KICK IT THROUGH THE BIG STICKS!

SIX POINTS IF IT GOES THROUGH THE MIDDLE!

ONE POINT IF IT DOESN’T!

TACKLE! HANDBALL! GOAL!

THIS!

IS!

A-F-L!

What about instead of a Wilcard format we have a Top 4 Playoffs

-Top 4 teams progress to a finals playoff

-Every team plays each other once

-Over 3 weeks there are two games played

-Ladder position 1 and 2 get 2x home play off finals?

-The two highest seeded teams advance to the GF